The panel is a cross-section of the state and includes jurors with friends or family who have struggled with substance abuse
Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, leave the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, after the first day of his trial. He is charged with illegally buying a gun as a drug user, and has pleaded not guilty. | Matt Rourke/APAfter just one day of proceedings, Judge Maryellen Noreika swore in a panel of 12 ordinary-but-eclectic Delawareans, plus four alternate jurors, to determine whether the president’s son is guilty of illegally buying a gun while using drugs.
The panel is a cross-section of the state. It includes jurors with friends or family who have struggled with substance abuse — which is at the heart of the criminal case against Biden. And, in a dynamic that may help the tabloid-dogged son of the president, several said they were not fans of the news media.
Prospective jurors fielded questions about their backgrounds and beliefs from Noreika, Biden’s lead defense lawyer Abbe Lowell, and Justice Department prosecutor Derek Hines, who works under special counsel David Weiss. Lowell and Hines rarely asked more than a question or two. “They have the news on all day, but I put airpods in my ears so I don’t have to listen to it,” she said. “It’s depressing.”The jurors expressed a variety of views on guns. The subject is relevant because Biden is charged with illegally owning a gun as a drug user and with lying about his drug use on a government form he filled out when he bought the weapon. One juror is licensed to carry concealed weapons and owns multiple. Another, whose home was burglarized, also owns a gun.
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